Areas targeted for adjustment centered on agriculture, property appraisal, corrections, state agency organization, county office administration and the role of state officials in labor disputes.

Specific examples include repeal of action tied to appointment of a county jail matron, conveyance of a building to the city of Belle Plaine, the fee on pest control operators, mandatory appraisals prior to the sale of real property and monthly progress reports to the Legislature on state building construction.

Among the more bizarre state laws identified for repeal set forth a procedure for reinstating a sheriff after a prisoner in his or her custody was lynched.

"It seems that might be disqualifying for reinstatement," said Dennis Taylor, secretary of the Kansas Department of Administration.

Brownback said the 51 items outlined by the state Department of Administration, which served as Office of the Repealer, targeted government mandates that were "out of date, unreasonable and burdensome."

Taylor said the package made public Friday would be expanded. His office received more than 500 ideas for reform, and more are likely to follow.

"The list released today is just the first step," he said. "We continue to review and consider for repeal hundreds of suggestions."

Left off the wish list created by Taylor and endorsed by Brownback was a request by the Kansas Equality Coalition to repeal a state law that prohibited people of the same sex from engaging in intercourse.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that state laws banning this type of same-sex relationship were unconstitutional.

"We are angry and disappointed that Governor Brownback has failed to keep his promise to repeal laws that are unreasonable," said Thomas Witt, chairman of the Kansas Equality Coalition.

Taylor, in an interview, said he didn't want to wade into reasons the sodomy law and other reform ideas were left on the cutting room floor.

The items announced Friday will each be submitted in separate bill form for legislators to consider.

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